The environment they work in is rife with dust and dirt and, of course, oil.
While looking for a solution to the problem, I came acrossSpeedFanfrom the awesomely altruistic Alfredo Milani Comparetti.
I saw it on MakeUseOf, over atMonitor your system Fan Speed With SpeedFan.
That article covers all the neat stuff, like adjusting fan speed, graphing temperatures and so on.
SpeedFan can also be set to popup a message, execute a program or script, or beep.
Here’s how I set up SpeedFan for my users:
Open SpeedFan and press theConfigurebutton.
From there, you better select theMailtab to set up access for SpeedFan to your e-mail account.
It’s got to send the message somehow.
The profile name will be default, since Alfredo hasn’t added the ability to have multiple profiles yet.
It’s epic as it is.
There are an awful lot of variables that can be monitored beyond that though.
Check a few:
That’s about half of the list.
Gotta have a cowboy analogy in here somewhere!).
So far I haven’t had to do that.
The temperature is in Celsius.
TheAllow everynsecondsparameter determines how often the event will be triggered.
Keeps form crashing my mail provider.
Then I chose the eventsend mail.
The next field is the subject of the e-mail that will be sent.
I use the laptop’s name so I know who to call.
Finally, the last field determines which e-mail profile to use.
This will bedefaultuntil the developer adds the ability to have more than one e-mail profile.
The time and money this has saved the company is in the thousands.
And the software is free!
